On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 09:12, Alan W. Rateliff, II wrote: > I actually have QPopper use a different directory for the temporary spool, > that helped with quotas in the past. However, now when QPopper goes to > reconstruct the mailfile, a box that exceeds the quota becomes garbage, or > doesn't rebuild at all.
Quotas are applied per filesystem. So put the temp spool on a partition with quotas not enabled. There's still a boundary condition where the spool might grow slightly during a POP, so leave some margin in your limits to keep from getting too close to the hard limit.
